Abhishek Tiwari

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What you call this? Linguistic morphology of chemical names and lost in translation

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 8:44 am
Here is a real world example how Linguistic morphology of chemical names may have unwanted secondary effects For example, English search engines such as Google and Yahoo! are unable to find "chloroben...
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Lowering Pharma firewalls: Just for Bioinformatics or Chemoinformatics also

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 10:02 am
Notion of pre-competitive collaboration has been in under experiment steadily for quite sometime now. Notable examples are the Airbus consortium of European aircraft manufacturers, the Sematech consor...
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Gladwell states as guidlines for a better omics data management

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 11:45 am
Universal application of high throughput omics technologies have enabled scientists to measure tens of thousands of data points in a single experiment. As a result of this scientific world has become ...
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Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 7:47 pm
Students from iGEM Harward team are using the optical communication to create a physically distributed lac operon between a bacteria and an yeast cell which normally occur within the same cell. Idea i...
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Mackenzie Cowell's Fascination with Synthetic Biology

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 10:31 am
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org, an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who...
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A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 8:03 am
Original article is available at Fisheye Perspective blog. Stay tuned for more posts and subscribe the RSS feed. 
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Here Comes Science

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 6:47 am
They Might Be Giants' album, Here Comes Science, is collection of thought provoking audio/video content for kids. A musical melody which covers a broad range of topics in science starting from wh...
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Story of "Synthia" the (theoretical) human-made synthetic microbe

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 7:21 am
"The Story of Synthia" explains -- in a cartoon -- how some scientists are attempting to create synthetic "life." By replacing the genome of a natural microbe with a human-made genome constructed from...
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Google's future scale computing

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 8:17 am
Forget about the Internet scale, seriously that is not enough for Google. Google engineers are now talking about future scale which means company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers i...
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SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 6:55 am
As I mentioned in my previous posts that for next few days we are going to cover various interesting activities related to iGEM 2009 and selected student projects will be featured on the Fisheye Persp...
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Public perception and Synthetic Reality

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 12:05 pm
If synthetic biology fulfills its promise it has potential to replace the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. At least that's what Michael Specter's recent story pub...
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We essentially want to create a drug factory in your nose

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 10:19 am
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2009 Jamboree dates are coming closer and for next few days we are going to look around the wikis to learn more about what different teams are ...
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Stunning images from Wellcome Image Awards

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 9:30 am
Yesterday Wellcome Trust announced the winners of the tenth Wellcome Image Awards, featuring 19 stunning images. These images are simply incredible, many of them are technically very difficult to achi...
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Guaranteeing broadband access

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 5:58 am
Although this news is already hot in air I could not resist to post it again. According to reports Finland is the first country to make broadband access a legal right. Starting next July, every person...
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Big data, Big challenges

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 11:00 pm
Image by Photo Blog 0001 via Flickr Recently New York Times has published a tech article about big data. According the article some of the largest technology companies like I.B.M. and Google think th...
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Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 8:00 am
A top-10 list of recommendations for how to write consistently boring scientific publications by Kaj Sand-Jensen • Avoid focus • Avoid originality and personality • Write l o n g contribution...
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Interview with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 8:01 am
Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'studies of the structure and function of the ribosome', the cell's protein-making factory. In this interview, he talks...
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Monkeys exhibit the uncanny valley effect

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 7:28 am
Image via Wikipedia A recent peer reviewed research published in journal PNAS suggests that monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley. The idea of uncanny valley was introduced by Japanese ...
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What synthetic biology can learn from programming languages

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 11:28 pm
What is synthetic biology? In simple words Synthetic biology is nothing but putting engineering into biology. An engineered genetic toggle switch developed by Tim Gardner and Jim Collins is a good exa...
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BioEngineered personalized human bone grafts created from bone marrow stem cells

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 9:24 pm
Scale up of engineered bone grafts towards clinical applications is always a central challenge in regenerative medicine. In latest article PNAS Grayson et. al report an approach to develop clinically...
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Top NZ entry for Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2009

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 10:17 am
Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. Confocal fluorescence image taken by Dr. Lloyd Donaldson from Scion,...
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Get your sample scanned for free under electron microscope

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 8:13 am
A small endorsement which I think will be useful for the readers of this blog. ASPEX, a leading producer of Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) and Microanalysis software is offering free SEM scan of...
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A Polymer analog of Hilbert's curve at the megabase scale

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 7:00 am
Hilbert curve or Hilbert space-filling curve is a continuous fractal space-filling curve that densely fills higher-dimensional space without crossing itself. It was first described by the German mat...
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Convergence and confluence of data sharing efforts

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 2:35 am
Most of data sharing policies share some common principles such as protecting the cumulative data outputs, recognizing data as a public good and data sharing as strong value chains of innovation for s...
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Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 3:57 am
Christopher Collins has developed this new visualization technique which can reveal interesting set relations in data using isocontours over existing visualizations. Following is the abstract of the B...
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Is Business Intelligence too sexy?

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 10:46 am
Business Intelligence (BI) is facing a significant challenge according to one of the industry’s leading thinkers and its ‘sexiness’ is causing the problem. Lecturer in Information Technology at ...
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 and The Ghost of Bell Labs

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 8:52 am
Image via Wikipedia And this years Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Charles K. Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and Bell Labs ...
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IBM DNA Transistor: Towards the nanoscale DNA sequencer

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 7:49 am
IBM today announced an ambitious effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer. In following video IBM Researchers Stas Polonsky and Gustavo A Stolovitzky explain how project could improve throughput and...
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Nobel Prize: A Tribute to Curiosity Driven Basic Science

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 7:43 pm
Original article is available at Fisheye Perspective blog. Stay tuned for more posts and subscribe the RSS feed. 
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A tale of telomeres and telomerase

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 5:46 am
Image via Wikipedia And the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telome...
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Links Roundup of the Week-2

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 4:02 am
Image via Wikipedia Unraveling different chemical fingerprints between a champagne wine and its aerosols As champagne or sparkling wine is poured into a glass, the myriad of ascending bubbles collaps...
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Do animals have a concepts of art?

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 11:03 pm
Renowned researcher Daniel Povinelli explores the notion of creativity and art in animals. Daniel is interested in characterizing the evolution of higher-order cognitive functions in the great ape/hum...
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Google Wave In a Nutshell

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 8:33 am
Have you gotten your Wave invite yet? In either case have a look on this introductory text about Google Wave from O'Reilly's upcoming book Google Wave: Up and Running. Article provides a supe...
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Butterfly Phylogenetics

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 2:55 am
A recent study published in online issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reconstructs a Nymphalid butterfly family tree and reveals family's evolutionary history which has remained a lo...
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An open letter to the Nobel Foundation to overhual the current system

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 9:31 am
In an open letter to the Nobel Foundation published on newscientist.com, a group of scientists call for overhaule of current system of Nobel prizes. The panel which includes 2001 Nobel prize winner in...
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A Nobel Prize for BLAST?

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 8:05 am
Although the Nobel prizes will be announced in coming weeks there is an increasing interest about possible winners. The winners of the prize for Physiology will be announced on Monday 5th. Like every ...
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Blending Google Chrome with Google Apps

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 7:39 am
via @alfalcon ( http://bit.ly/iHtNN,http://bit.ly/KPEEl) Original article is available at Fisheye Perspective blog. Stay tuned for more posts and subscribe the RSS feed. 
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When explicit data sharing policies fall short

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 1:44 am
A recent study published in journal PLoS One suggests that explicit data sharing policies in journals do not lead authors to share data. Authors requested data from ten investigators who had published...
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Links Roundup of the Week-1

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 1:36 am
What McDonald’s Taught me about Running a Lab The vision of McDonald’s and your lab maybe different. Well, maybe not, if that cure for malaria ever pans out, you too can add “Billions Served”...
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Helicos' True Single Molecule Sequencing

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 7:45 am
Helicos' True Single Molecule Sequencing(tSMS)™ technology helps researchers to directly sequence the single molecules of DNA or RNA, significantly increases the speed of sequencing, while als...
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Mendeley to CiteULike and other CiteULike enhancements

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 7:25 am
Compared to other services CiteULike is evolving very quickly. Several important developments over last few weeks, Article Recommendations CiteULike now offers a recommendation service. If you have at...
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Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 6:09 am
Featuring DynaVis, a visualization system featuring animated data graphics.Animating from a scatter plot to a bar chart (replacing a numerical dimension with a categorical dimension). The top path dir...
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Nature Communications or Nature One

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 11:40 pm
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is making its way for PLoS One audience. From April 2010 NPG will be publishing a new online-only journal Nature Communications with an open-access option. According to a...
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Bioinformatics: A recipe-based approach is biggest curse

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 9:36 pm
Some time back Deepak Singh wrote an interesting post The curse of BLAST describing how BLAST has become synonymous to the bioinformatics. Although his article highlights a general perception about bi...
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The Life Scientists: Self promotion award of the month

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 1:54 am
If you are are a budding/experienced science blogger posting self promotional blog posts or links on the friendfeed group "The Life Scientists" then you have been just nominated for self promotion awa...
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Science: Being first is not always the case

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 1:37 am
Which one is better for progress of science? Competition or Collaboration. Interestingly answer is mix of both such as a pre-competitive collaboration. Both competition and collaboration based science...
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Towards a Data Democracy

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 10:04 pm
Scientists often possess more data than their discovery, can we stimulate more discoveries by making this data publicly available for other riders of the science, and if yes what is the best way to do...
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Theory of Science demands open access

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 4:00 am
A very interesting article by Gerhard Fröhlich was recently published in Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis. Unfortunately full version of this article appears to be in German as Die Wissenschaftst...
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A Meditation on Biological Modeling

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 10:14 am
No doubt biological modeling is meant for mainstream biologists also, not just for hard core computer scientists or mathematicians. Not every one using the computer knows how transistors work or let ...
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Eyebrowse: Track, share and compare your web browsing activity in real time

Abhishek Tiwari posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 7:48 am
Recently MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has launched a new service, eyebrowse, which allows users to share what pages they are browsing on the web in real time. In summary eyebro...
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